Greatest Attacking Chess Players Of All Time

One of my favorite attacking chess players are Mikhail Tal. He is a perfect example of pure tactical genius. In fact, in my mind, he may have been the best. But that is just my opinion. So there are other chess players out there as well. Topalov can be attacking, but he just doesn't have the certain spark to his attacks like Tal did. So who do you think is the best?

All these names and you leave off Alekhine? Distasteful personality (to say the least) aside, he was one of the greatest combinational geniuses in the history of chess. Also, you've got to factor in Bronstein, Keres, Kasparov, and Shirov, who are/were all brilliant attackers as well.

All these names and you leave off Alekhine? Distasteful personality (to say the least) aside, he was one of the greatest combinational geniuses in the history of chess. Also, you've got to factor in Bronstein, Keres, Kasparov, and Shirov, who are/were all brilliant attackers as well.

Keres: (a note on Keres: he doesn't strike me to be quite as imaginative an attacker as Bronstein or Tal were, but once his combinations seemed to be a lot cleaner, which is a sign of greatness in and of itself)

Shirov (very complicated and messy (looking at many of his sacrifices, I cannot help but think that Rybka would be able to find a way out); neverthless, many of his conceptions remain nothing short of spectacular): vs. Lipinsky (1990): http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1074916

"Nezhmetdinov, . . . if he had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½–0½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

Nezhmetdinov won a number of games against world champions such as Tal and Spassky, and also had success against other world-class grandmasters such as Bronstein, Polugaevsky, and Geller. He achieved a plus score in the 20 games he contested against World Champions. But in addition to his aforementioned dismal score against Averbakh, he could only score +0−3=2 each against excellent defenders Petrosian[1] and Korchnoi.[2]

morphy,alekhine,tal, botvinik,stein,plays in the era where chess is not highly evolved as today..unlike in the era of kasparov,too many books have written too many strong computer,to dominate in these era is awesome,kasparov is a monster with 10 eyes.. just have to study his game to see how awesome this guy was...

Bronstein's games doesn't strike me as being clearly attacking games, they just strike me as being really complicated. Sometimes in attack, sometimes in defensive situations, and sometimes just due to the unorthodox ideas he has. Such as his rather famous queen sacrifice for the bishop pair and 2 pawns in the early stages of the KID.

There were many chessplayers who played risky games full of traps and victims in the chess history. But the players whose an agressive style of play had a strong base in position were few. I mean Morphy , Alekchine , Tal.